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[Jerry B <liberty AT kaballero.com>]

Akka Homestead wrote:
> Perhaps her 'mythology' doesn't have anything to do with it.  Some
> people can be assholes with or without mythology.
> I am certainly no expert on Palin or politics, but isn't she for opening
> up the Reserves on the North Slope?  I'd bet she's also for offshore
> drilling.  Everyone I've ever known who lived in Alaska was pretty self
> sufficient and had a real gumption about them-a do it or die for real
> attitude.  Perhaps that, instead of her 'mythology' will lower
> increasing oil prices.
>   
And I think this is probably the very worst scenario that could occur.  
Finding alternatives for oil/coal/natural gas is imperative. Even then, 
given 100% success at this, we are cooked meat unless means are also 
found to remove excessive CO2 in the air put there by humans over the 
last 100 years. I think the only viable way I have heard to do this is 
increased soil fertility, a measure never heard yet in the media or 
climate change circles. Again, anything that lessons burning of fossil 
fuels or their use in agriculture is a plus, compared to the inevitable 
effects of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. This soon will obviously 
overshadow any other challenge we face for survival.  'Peak Oil' is the 
best thing we got going for us. "Drill, drill, drill" would be about the 
worst, especially in the long run. I am tending to agree with Letterman. 
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/david-lettermans-global-w_n_125090.html

My conclusion is that seeing that as many as possible survive what is 
coming  should be our focus.  The fortunate thing is that these efforts 
and actions happen to also provide the greatest here and now benefits, 
regardless of what is to occur in the future.   No time wasted by 
increased self-sufficiency, lowering energy needs, and alternative 
life-styles.  Personally, I think underground and earth-bermed shelter 
can also play a very significant role in assuring some make it through 
the days ahead, as well as whatever we each can do to aid return carbon 
back into the soil, including buying 'Organic'.  That we will make a 
large enough concerted effort to turn the tide is not a given, for 
certain.  Jerry B